MOSCOW (AP) — A former Russian Orthodox monk, who denied that the coronavirus existed and defied the Kremlin, was handed a seven-year prison sentence Friday. Nikolai Romanov, 67, who was known as ...

Nov. 22—A monk with the Russian Orthodox Church in Kodiak was sentenced Monday to five years in prison for sexually abusing a child. Evan P. Nicolai, 60, turned himself in to police in October 2021 ...

MOSCOW, June 8 (Reuters) - The head of the Russian Orthodox Church has urged monks not to use cellphones to access the Internet in order to avoid temptation. "Now the Internet appears to be a great ...

The head of the Russian Orthodox Church has urged monks not to use cellphones to access the Internet in order to avoid temptation. “Now the Internet appears to be a great temptation,” Patriarch Kirill ...

SVYATOHIRSK, Ukraine -- The white walls, colorful roofs, and shiny golden domes stand out amid the treetops on the steep slope above the winding Siverskiy Donets River in the Donbas, the swath of ...

Picture a land free of politics and persecution. The working man, no longer under the heavy thumb of diabolical kings, ...

LVIV, Ukraine (RNS) — On a recent Sunday, Ukrainian Orthodox Abbott Job Olshansky faced 50 stoic parishioners and presented his case for why the community should switch to the Gregorian liturgical ...